I LOVE Alcohol Inks

Afternoon All,

All this enforced sitting down has certainly been to the benefit of blogland, I can't remember the last time I posted so many days in a row.

As I told you yesterday one of the highlights of 2019 for me was my reaquaintance with all things alcohol ink.

I have always loved the effects that you can achieve on acetate, but using the Alcohol Lift Inkpad to 'pull' an image from it gives such a lovely clean print. Check out the technique HERE with Jennifer McGuire.

There is also a reinker which means that you can remove the colour from a piece of alcohol ink background using a stencil. Another link HERE

Again a lovely crisp image and you don't contaminate your inkpad.

Now I can't bare to waste anything, so I used the ink that I had pulled from the original piece

through another stencil for the backgrounds

to these last two cards.

I simply stamped and embossed over the top of this one, and then added a sentiment.

Another stencilled background using the same technique.

This time I used a Tim Holtz Alcohol ink pen to remove colour from one piece of background and then painted the stamped and embossed image on this piece. Another tutorial HERE

Sometimes the inks just blend together into a some what 'muddy' colour.

But you know me, I just couldn't waste it. A bit of gold embossing powder and a die cut sentiment. Makes a good card for a man I think.
Have a great afternoon. I need a walk to the kettle.
Happy Crafting and hugs
Kimx

A Highlight from 2019 - Alcohol Ink Blending

Evening Everyone,

One of the things that I have been working on during my enforced sit down, is trying to sort through a mountain of card photos so that I can blog some of them.

A favourite highlight from 2019 was being introduced to the Alcohol Ink Lift pad and Yupo paper which resulted in a wonderful reacquaintance with all things alcohol ink.

Just one of the techniques that I explored was the use of the Alcohol blending pen.

Ink from a prepared piece of alcohol ink background can be lifted from the stamped image, and then another image can be coloured in using this ink.

This is a wonderfully relaxing technique, although one of the things that I did learn about Yupo/Graffixart Craft Plastic is that it is not always the easiest thing to heat emboss.

In my previous post from September a friend asked what I did with the shrivelled plastic. The answer is that I covered it up with another stamped and coloured image and a bit of fussy cutting.
It was just too pretty to throw away.

The beauty of this technique is that you don't need a huge piece of alcohol inked background to colour with. Even a narrow strip trimmed from an image will give you enough usable ink.
Off to bed now, I need to rest my numb bum lol.
Hugs Kimx

Pearls and/or Gems for CCM Challenge 240

Hi All
We have a brand new challenge starting today over at CCM where our lovely host Dr Monika is looking for Pearls and/or Gems on your creations.

Now it was not a problem to find a card for this challenge, my problem was narrowing it down, since adding a couple of bits of bling to a card has become one of my favourite things to do.
This is all courtesy of the wonderful Jennifer McGuire and her influences. She has cost me a fortune in sparkly bits and pieces.

I found this Alcohol Blend colouring technique on her blog which I shared with the Girls a couple of weeks ago.

Basically an image is stamped and embossed onto a piece of alcohol inked background that has been prepared on Yupo paper or in this case Grafixarts Craft Plastic.
Do be careful when heating the embossing powder or your background might shrivel up a bit. Ask me how I know this :O)

Next remove the alcohol ink from this stamped and embossed image with an Alcohol ink Blending tool and use it to paint another image, this time on regular card stock.

 The flowers are from one of my new stamp sets from Alpaca Pals.

I love their cute stamps as well as this fabulous floral design.
I cut my painted panel up to create two finished cards, and as you can see they all have a smattering of tiny gems. Perfect for this challenge.
I hope that you will find the time to join us, and don't for get to pop over and see what the rest of the team have come up with to inspire you.
Happy Crafting and hugs
Kimx